What does this mean to users? There's no new functionality. It's more or less "combined" existing functionality. So, what is the significance here (I'm honestly asking, I'm sure there is some interesting consumer benefits).
A few I can think of: 1) Longer battery life on mobile devices 2) Instant "on", since the state of the OS and applications can remain in memory
With #2 I would guess that certain programs that maintain clock pulse counters may operate "oddly" and have to be reprogrammed to stay in sync. Though, I'm sure there would be some kind of "memory going to / returning from virtual back burner" interrupt.
Another implication I can think of is user security. Shutting down the computer may not be enough in the same manner that "emptying your recycling bin" does not physically remove the data. Hopefully this memory / flash is easy to wipe, and it would probably be partitioned into "working / ram memory" and "storage".
We had this at a "cyber cafe" that I worked in toward the end of the '90s. There was a VR headset that allowed you to fly through different landscapes (i remember a musty smelling cave). This machine sat in the corner and collected dust.
Maybe when we get to the point where virtual worlds make us feel like we are actually standing somewhere different (and not just staring at the screen or wearing a headset), then we will need to tackle things like smell and touch. This will help our virtual world transcend that "uncanny valley".
For now, it's just not needed. It's a gimmick, and probably an expensive one. I'm not insisted it will never be needed, but just not now.
When we do finally need to need to tackle the "smelling" aspect of VR, my guess is that our immersion into the world will be so advanced compared to what we have now that it's being done by fooling our neurons, and not our eyes / ears / nose themselves. At that point, these devices will be moot, because we'll just be sending signals to the brain.
This is a joke, i hope. It sounds elitist and exclusionary. A lot of great hackers are self taught. But, there a many people who learn by seeking the help of of others. There is nothing wrong with that. Who is to say they don't already know what Linux is? Do *you* know what Linux is and how it works? I've been using it for over 12 years, and I sure as heck don't! I still rely on the knowledge of other people to make the best use of the tools I have available. Some might argue that this is what it takes to be "any good".
We can make the Mississippi current 100x more dangerous with special effects. We can change everyone's skin tone to make them all equal. When Huck gets himself in the middle of a family feud, we'll be sure to see the Grangerfords shoot first.
No. It suggests that it is being done as a defensive strategy against a future publication. Nowhere does it say "major". At least not in the first sentence. It doesn't even imply that there is a known leak. It could be "just in case". But, sure, add some drama if you'd like.
I would have been able to contribute more if I didn't have to click "no" to "would you like to discuss this star"? every time i wanted to see a new image.
I thought the justification for continuing tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans was that it would help the economy, because investment would trickle down through innovation / job creation. Here is a wonderful counter point to that argument.
If we want to entice the wealthy to use money to create jobs, why don't tie their rewards directly to job creation? These people are actually killing the economy and making people poor by creating a money-sink in the economy where no value is added. They are not only hurting these big companies with their greed, they are helping to force a divide in wealth distribution and indirectly making real people go hungry.
It's true. More bags of M&Ms will ship in the next 18 months than all mobile devices combined. This certainly means the end of mobile computing!
Seriously. I am not sure if these devices are all "replacing" PCs. Sure it may dent PC usage, but it's not exactly a cataclysm. I have 2 mobile devices and three PCs, and will likely buy another PC next year.
As another poster confessed, I would be hesitant to download any pirated software less out of moral qualms than out of fear of malware. Add to this, the fact that much software does use an Internet connection, even if the software's functionality does not require it. Being always connected has changed things. Software can phone home and does so often. Be it for "update checking" or "license verification", vendors have a better notion of where their software is installed than ever before.
Sure there is firewall software to stop unauthorized Internet access, but now so many applications use the network that there is a lot of noise to signal or vice-versa. These days, when I have a software need, I try to find a (legitimately) free alternative whenever possible.
Also, the "Reply to This" button under the first post is much more prominent than the "reply" link to the left at the footer of the Article text. I've accidentally replied to the first post my share of times. Mind you, the "first post" differs depending on who is reading it and how the replies are sorted for them.
At least 774,641 searched for the file (wanting to pirate it) and found this copy first. If this copy was not there, 774,641 would have searched for the file and found what was otherwise the second result for said software. What we can say is that 774,641 pirated the software, not that the uploaded caused it to be pirated 774,641 times.
I'm trying not to condonng the pirates or sympathizing with the software company. This is just (hopefully) an objective observation.
"So you're bound to your brain. You cannot live forever unless your particular, specific, physical brain stays in tact. If I copy your brain to another cloned brain, yank yours out, and replace it with the clone, everyone else will interact with you as if you were you, no difference; but YOU would vanish into the blackness, you'd stop living, you'd die."
And what makes your brain from ten years ago the same as the one you have today? Physical material? I doubt that. Matter is energy that maintains a similar state through time. This doesn't mean that your brain from 10 years ago and the one you have today share a single atom. Matter is more complex than that.
But to make it a little less abstract. Suppose they can replace a single bit of your brain. Is it still you? What if they can replace all parts individually?
If I replace the tires, is it the same car? How about the engine? If not the engine, how about the piston rings? And then keeping those same rings, what about the piston itself? And what If I continue to do this to every bolt in the car, not once, but over time? When is this car no longer considered the same car?
My guess is that they knew it was a pirated game because the modder said "That about does it. Let's test if it works. Here's a pirated game that otherwise wouldn't work. Hey lookie there, it works!". Sure, he could have said "copy", but I doubt it. People I know that hack stuff like this don't aviod saying the "P" word even to strangers.
Still. There's no proof of this, and further, even if there was proof, the prosecution never told the defense before they used it in court. That is against the rules, and that's why the case was thrown out. Maybe they can focus on putting sex offenders in jail now.
From TFA:Plans for the coup d'etat in Yanaon, then a small French colony in India, are also believed to have been hatched that on the evening of April 11 1954 but nothing actually happened that night.
Dadala Raphael Ramanayya: Gentlemen, prepare yourselves. This is a great Historical night!!
From TFA: Plans for the coup d'etat in Yanaon, then a small French colony in India, are also believed to have been hatched that on the evening of April 11 1954 but nothing actually happened that night.
Dadala Raphael Ramanayya: Gentlemen, prepare yourselves. This is a great Historical night!! Dudes: HUZZZAH!
Like a green card system. If you outlaw "landing on Earth", only outlaws will land on Earth. That is very scary. I recommend a legal path to citizenship for our visitors.
Microsoft just doesn't make my blood boil the way they used to. Sure, I still hate them out of habit, but I'm old and tired now. I feel like a bed-ridden, old and gray, Elmer Fudd who still mumbles that he "could have had that wascilly wabbit', but in reality doesn't really care and just wants you to leave him alone so he can watch Diagnosis Murder.
That fact alone is a bad sign for Microsoft. They just don't matter in the same way they used to and they certainly don't drive Technology the way they did in the past few decades. Their tactics are less of a threat than they used to be. Sure, they'd do evil if they could, but they are just fruit flies at my picnic, and I've got my eyes peeled for bears.
No no no. I plan on stepping aside and enjoying my Golden Years while the next generation shakes their fists at their Apples and Googles and Facebooks.
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What does this mean to users? There's no new functionality. It's more or less "combined" existing functionality.
So, what is the significance here (I'm honestly asking, I'm sure there is some interesting consumer benefits).
A few I can think of:
1) Longer battery life on mobile devices
2) Instant "on", since the state of the OS and applications can remain in memory
With #2 I would guess that certain programs that maintain clock pulse counters may operate "oddly" and have to be reprogrammed to stay in sync. Though, I'm sure there would be some kind of "memory going to / returning from virtual back burner" interrupt.
Another implication I can think of is user security. Shutting down the computer may not be enough in the same manner that "emptying your recycling bin" does not physically remove the data. Hopefully this memory / flash is easy to wipe, and it would probably be partitioned into "working / ram memory" and "storage".
And it was simply no fun.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.11/digiscent.html
We had this at a "cyber cafe" that I worked in toward the end of the '90s. There was a VR headset that allowed you to fly through different landscapes (i remember a musty smelling cave). This machine sat in the corner and collected dust.
Maybe when we get to the point where virtual worlds make us feel like we are actually standing somewhere different (and not just staring at the screen or wearing a headset), then we will need to tackle things like smell and touch. This will help our virtual world transcend that "uncanny valley".
For now, it's just not needed. It's a gimmick, and probably an expensive one. I'm not insisted it will never be needed, but just not now.
When we do finally need to need to tackle the "smelling" aspect of VR, my guess is that our immersion into the world will be so advanced compared to what we have now that it's being done by fooling our neurons, and not our eyes / ears / nose themselves. At that point, these devices will be moot, because we'll just be sending signals to the brain.
This is a joke, i hope. It sounds elitist and exclusionary. A lot of great hackers are self taught. But, there a many people who learn by seeking the help of of others. There is nothing wrong with that. Who is to say they don't already know what Linux is? Do *you* know what Linux is and how it works? I've been using it for over 12 years, and I sure as heck don't! I still rely on the knowledge of other people to make the best use of the tools I have available. Some might argue that this is what it takes to be "any good".
We can make the Mississippi current 100x more dangerous with special effects. We can change everyone's skin tone to make them all equal. When Huck gets himself in the middle of a family feud, we'll be sure to see the Grangerfords shoot first.
I don't like people who steel credit either. Or anyone who commits pewter fraud for that matter.
We need Scientists of ALL kinds.
No. It suggests that it is being done as a defensive strategy against a future publication. Nowhere does it say "major". At least not in the first sentence. It doesn't even imply that there is a known leak. It could be "just in case". But, sure, add some drama if you'd like.
I would have been able to contribute more if I didn't have to click "no" to "would you like to discuss this star"? every time i wanted to see a new image.
No it was a double plus ungood.
I thought the justification for continuing tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans was that it would help the economy, because investment would trickle down through innovation / job creation. Here is a wonderful counter point to that argument.
If we want to entice the wealthy to use money to create jobs, why don't tie their rewards directly to job creation? These people are actually killing the economy and making people poor by creating a money-sink in the economy where no value is added. They are not only hurting these big companies with their greed, they are helping to force a divide in wealth distribution and indirectly making real people go hungry.
Because I'm sure they're not doing the same thing.
It's true. More bags of M&Ms will ship in the next 18 months than all mobile devices combined. This certainly means the end of mobile computing!
Seriously. I am not sure if these devices are all "replacing" PCs. Sure it may dent PC usage, but it's not exactly a cataclysm. I have 2 mobile devices and three PCs, and will likely buy another PC next year.
As another poster confessed, I would be hesitant to download any pirated software less out of moral qualms than out of fear of malware. Add to this, the fact that much software does use an Internet connection, even if the software's functionality does not require it. Being always connected has changed things. Software can phone home and does so often. Be it for "update checking" or "license verification", vendors have a better notion of where their software is installed than ever before.
Sure there is firewall software to stop unauthorized Internet access, but now so many applications use the network that there is a lot of noise to signal or vice-versa. These days, when I have a software need, I try to find a (legitimately) free alternative whenever possible.
Also, the "Reply to This" button under the first post is much more prominent than the "reply" link to the left at the footer of the Article text. I've accidentally replied to the first post my share of times. Mind you, the "first post" differs depending on who is reading it and how the replies are sorted for them.
At least 774,641 searched for the file (wanting to pirate it) and found this copy first. If this copy was not there, 774,641 would have searched for the file and found what was otherwise the second result for said software. What we can say is that 774,641 pirated the software, not that the uploaded caused it to be pirated 774,641 times.
I'm trying not to condonng the pirates or sympathizing with the software company. This is just (hopefully) an objective observation.
"So you're bound to your brain. You cannot live forever unless your particular, specific, physical brain stays in tact. If I copy your brain to another cloned brain, yank yours out, and replace it with the clone, everyone else will interact with you as if you were you, no difference; but YOU would vanish into the blackness, you'd stop living, you'd die."
And what makes your brain from ten years ago the same as the one you have today? Physical material? I doubt that. Matter is energy that maintains a similar state through time. This doesn't mean that your brain from 10 years ago and the one you have today share a single atom. Matter is more complex than that.
But to make it a little less abstract. Suppose they can replace a single bit of your brain. Is it still you? What if they can replace all parts individually?
If I replace the tires, is it the same car? How about the engine? If not the engine, how about the piston rings? And then keeping those same rings, what about the piston itself? And what If I continue to do this to every bolt in the car, not once, but over time? When is this car no longer considered the same car?
My guess is that they knew it was a pirated game because the modder said "That about does it. Let's test if it works. Here's a pirated game that otherwise wouldn't work. Hey lookie there, it works!". Sure, he could have said "copy", but I doubt it. People I know that hack stuff like this don't aviod saying the "P" word even to strangers.
Still. There's no proof of this, and further, even if there was proof, the prosecution never told the defense before they used it in court. That is against the rules, and that's why the case was thrown out. Maybe they can focus on putting sex offenders in jail now.
From TFA:Plans for the coup d'etat in Yanaon, then a small French colony in India, are also believed to have been hatched that on the evening of April 11 1954 but nothing actually happened that night.
Dadala Raphael Ramanayya: Gentlemen, prepare yourselves. This is a great Historical night!!
Dudes: HUZZZAH!
From TFA: Plans for the coup d'etat in Yanaon, then a small French colony in India, are also believed to have been hatched that on the evening of April 11 1954 but nothing actually happened that night.
Dadala Raphael Ramanayya: Gentlemen, prepare yourselves. This is a great Historical night!!
Dudes: HUZZZAH!
Like a green card system. If you outlaw "landing on Earth", only outlaws will land on Earth. That is very scary. I recommend a legal path to citizenship for our visitors.
That's no Moon.
That's great, but we need livers for regular-sized humans.
You know what they say:
"time flies like an arrow but fruit flies like a banana"
Non-sequitur? I hardly know her.
Get off my la.. bah. Nap time.
Microsoft just doesn't make my blood boil the way they used to. Sure, I still hate them out of habit, but I'm old and tired now. I feel like a bed-ridden, old and gray, Elmer Fudd who still mumbles that he "could have had that wascilly wabbit', but in reality doesn't really care and just wants you to leave him alone so he can watch Diagnosis Murder.
That fact alone is a bad sign for Microsoft. They just don't matter in the same way they used to and they certainly don't drive Technology the way they did in the past few decades. Their tactics are less of a threat than they used to be. Sure, they'd do evil if they could, but they are just fruit flies at my picnic, and I've got my eyes peeled for bears.
No no no. I plan on stepping aside and enjoying my Golden Years while the next generation shakes their fists at their Apples and Googles and Facebooks.
And you can view these files on your purdy iP(hone|(ao)d)
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mobileorg/